When I Was a Child: A "When I Was a Child I Read Books" Essay
Written by Marilynne Robinson
Narrated by Marilynne Robinson
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When I Was a Child: A "When I Was a Child I read Books" Essat by Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson has built a sterling reputation as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, not only as a major American novelist, but also as a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. In When I Was a Child I Read Books she returns to and expands upon the themes which have preoccupied her work with renewed vigor.
Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson is the author of the novels Home, Gilead (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), and Housekeeping, and four books of nonfiction: When I Was a Child I Read Books, Mother Country, The Death of Adam, and Absence of Mind. She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
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